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I used to live in Timmins. There is some great speckled trout fishing there as well.

Niagara river from the whirlpool down. Lake trout, rainbow, brown trout, small mouth, salmon.

I worked in a chicken slaughterhouse once, like you as the afternoon clean-up crew. I lasted 3 days. They sold every single part of the chicken. I had to shovel chicken feet into bags and take 45 gallon drums of chicken blood to the loading dock. The way that dock smelled in July was beyond...

I'm not sure where you're going with this. It doesn't seem to make any sense. A line can't be said to be any number of degrees unless it's angular difference is measured against a reference line such as true north. Absent a reference line, a line can't be said to have any degrees. With a...

It used to Indonesia. Maybe it still is.

I believe it was Belgium.

This is partly correct. However, the German Stuka dive bomber actually had a siren built into the airframe that made a screaming noise when the plane accelerated in a dive.

False. Late in WWII there was a ship in the Baltic evacuating German civilians from Eastern Poland. It was very crowded and was sunk by Russian sub. I don't remember the name of the ship or the exact number that died but it was in the thousands. Much more than the Titanic.

It is a parabolic reflector used in the UK to listen for incoming aircraft prior to the application of radar.

Anything less than 300 is good. 300 is okay.

I understand that this dates back to the Norman conquest of England. Certain foods such as beef and pork were reserved for the Norman elite, while other foods such as chicken and fish could be eaten by commoners. The Normans spoke french so the English servants took to calling the meats served...

During the US Civil War (early 1860s) the Confederate States of America ran a POW camp called Andersonville that could reasonably be called a concentration camp. It was a horrible, overcrowded, disease infested place with inadequate water supply. Of the 45,000 prisoners nearly 13,000 died...

The story I heard was that there was bartender in Chicago named Mickey Finn. He would drug some peoples drinks so that his accomplices could rob them. Don't know if this true.

I seem to remember that there were 13 colonies.

I understood that the Secret Service was established to protect the currency from counterfeiting. Later its' duties were expanded. Hope I'm right.